OGC Update Blog Archive

Back in 2000, the OGC
Members determined that the W3C XLink recommendation was well suited to the
requirements for GML 2.0 as well as other OGC standards. However, at that time,
W3C did not have a XLink schema. Therefore, the OGC Members decided to define
an OGC XLink schema that was based on the W3C XLink recommendation. This XLink
schema is now used in numerous OGC standards (See below).

In the 200 years since the beginning of the industrial revolution, urbanisation has been occurring at an exponential rate – representing the largest impact humans have had on the planet. Infrastructure
development and maintenance is in need of major investment, estimated to be on
the order of $24 trillion over the next couple of decades – and most of the
funding will have to come from the private sector. The World Economic Forum estimates that we will have to build the same
urban capacity (housing, infrastructure and facilities) in the next 40 years